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Association of homogeneous inflamed gene signature with a better outcome in patients with metastatic melanoma treated with MAGE-A3 immunotherapeutic.

ABSTRACT: This study assessed clinical activity, safety and immunogenicity of MAGE-A3 immunotherapeutic in patients with MAGE-A3-positive metastatic melanoma.In this open-label, multicentre, uncontrolled, Phase II study (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00896480), patients received ?24 doses of MAGE-A3 immunotherapeutic (4-cycle schedule). At screening, two skin lesions were biopsied for MAGE-A3 expression analysis and presence/absence of a previously identified gene signature (GS) associated with favourable clinical outcome. Clinical activity was assessed in terms of clinical response, time-to-treatment failure (TTF) and progression-free survival (PFS). Adverse events (AEs) and serious AEs (SAEs) were recorded. MAGE-A3-specific immune responses were assessed. Clinical activity and immunogenicity were analysed overall and separately in patients with 2/2 (GS+/+), 1/2 (GS+/-) or 0/2 (GS-/-) biopsies presenting GS.Of 49 screened patients, 32 had MAGE-A3-positive tumours; 24 (8 GS+/+, 8 GS+/-, 8 GS-/-) were treated. Two complete (GS+/+ patients) and two partial responses (one GS+/+, one GS+/-) were reported; of note, one of the two complete responses was unlikely to be related to the study treatment. Median TTF and PFS were 14.8 and 7.2 months for GS+/+, 2.3 and 2.8 months for GS+/- and 2.4 and 2.9 months for GS-/- patients. Three grade 3 AEs and two SAEs unrelated to treatment were reported. All patients were seropositive for MAGE-A3 antibodies on vaccination with no differences between the different GS profiles. MAGE-A3-specific CD4+ and?CD8+ T?cell immunogenicity was detected; 12/16 (75.0%) of patients presented CD4+ T?cell responses.Treatment with MAGE-A3 immunotherapeutic showed signs of clinical activity in GS+/+ patients. Treatment was well tolerated and immunogenic. No differences in immune responses according to GS status were observed.NCT00896480 (Results).

SUBMITTER: Baurain JF

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6069918 | biostudies-literature | 2018

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Association of homogeneous inflamed gene signature with a better outcome in patients with metastatic melanoma treated with MAGE-A3 immunotherapeutic.

Baurain Jean-François JF Robert Caroline C Mortier Laurent L Neyns Bart B Grange Florent F Lebbe Céleste C Ulloa-Montoya Fernando F De Sousa Alves Pedro Miguel PM Gillet Marc M Louahed Jamila J Jarnjak Silvija S Lehmann Frédéric F FF

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<h4>Purpose</h4>This study assessed clinical activity, safety and immunogenicity of MAGE-A3 immunotherapeutic in patients with MAGE-A3-positive metastatic melanoma.<h4>Patients and methods</h4>In this open-label, multicentre, uncontrolled, Phase II study (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00896480), patients received ≤24 doses of MAGE-A3 immunotherapeutic (4-cycle schedule). At screening, two skin lesions were biopsied for MAGE-A3 expression analysis and presence/absence of a previously identified gene sign ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundHDIL-2 is approved for advanced melanoma based on its durable antitumor activity. MAGE-A3 cancer immunotherapeutic (MAGE-A3 CI) is a recombinant MAGE-A3 protein combined with an immunostimulant adjuvant system and has shown antitumor activity in melanoma. We assessed the safety and anti-tumor activity of HDIL-2 combined with MAGE-A3 CI in advanced melanoma.MethodsPatients with unresectable Stage III or Stage IV MAGE-A3-positive melanoma were enrolled in this phase II study. Treatment included an induction phase of MAGE-A3 CI plus HDIL-2 for 8 cycles followed by a maintenance phase of MAGE-A3 CI monotherapy. The primary endpoints were safety and objective response assessed per RECIST v1.1. Immune biomarker and correlative studies on tumor and peripheral blood were performed.ResultsEighteen patients were enrolled. Seventeen patients were evaluable for safety and sixteen for response. Responses occurred in 4/16 (25%) patients with 3 complete responses, and stable disease in 6/16 (38%) patients with a disease control rate of 63%. The median duration of response was not reached at median follow-up of 36.8 months. Induction therapy of HDIL-2 + MAGE-A3 CI had similar toxicities to those reported with HDIL-2 alone. Maintenance MAGE-A3 monotherapy was well-tolerated. Increased immune checkpoint receptor expression by circulating T regulatory cells was associated with poor clinical outcomes; and responders tended to have increased tumor infiltrating T cells in the baseline tumor samples.ConclusionsThe safety profile of HDIL-2 + MAGE-A3 CI was similar to HDIL-2 monotherapy. Maintenance MAGE-A3 CI provides robust anti-tumor activity in patients who achieved disease control with induction therapy. Immune monitoring data suggest that MAGE-A3 CI plus checkpoint inhibitors could be a promising treatment for MAGE-A3-positive melanoma.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01266603 . Registered 12/24/2010, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01266603.

Project description:Dendritic cell (DC)-based vaccination effectively induces anti-tumor immunity, although in the majority of cases this does not translate into a durable clinical response. However, DC vaccination is characterized by a robust safety profile, making this treatment a potential candidate for effective combination cancer immunotherapy. To explore this possibility, understanding changes occurring in the tumor microenvironment (TME) upon DC vaccination is required. In this line, quantitative and qualitative changes in tumor-infiltrating T lymphocytes (TILs) induced by vaccination with autologous tumor lysate/homogenate loaded DCs were investigated in a series of 16 patients with metastatic melanoma. Immunohistochemistry for CD4, CD8, Foxp3, Granzyme B (GZMB), PDL1, and HLA class I was performed in tumor biopsies collected before and after DC vaccination. The density of each marker was quantified by automated digital pathology analysis on whole slide images. Co-expression of markers defining functional phenotypes, i.e., Foxp3+ regulatory CD4+ T cells (Treg) and GZMB+ cytotoxic CD8+ T cells, was assessed with sequential immunohistochemistry. A significant increase of CD8+ TILs was found in post-vaccine biopsies of patients who were not previously treated with immune-modulating cytokines or Ipilimumab. Interestingly, along with a maintained tumoral HLA class I expression, after DC vaccination we observed a significant increase of PDL1+ tumor cells, which significantly correlated with intratumoral CD8+ T cell density. This observation might explain the lack of a significant concurrent cytotoxic reactivation of CD8+ T cell, as measured by the numbers of GZMB+ T cells. Altogether these findings indicate that DC vaccination exerts an important role in sustaining or de novo inducing a T cell inflamed TME. However, the strength of the intratumoral T cell activation detected in post-DC therapy lesions is lessened by an occurring phenomenon of adaptive immune resistance, yet the concomitant PDL1 up-regulation. Overall, this study sheds light on DC immunotherapy-induced TME changes, lending the rationale for the design of smarter immune-combination therapies.

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